Means for portioning cigarettes or other staff-shaped articles for the packing of the same



Aug. 16,1927. .639.429

G C. EKSTROM ET AL 1 MEANS FOR PORTIdNING CIGARETTES OR OTHER STAFFSHAPED ARTICLES FOR THE PACKING OF THE SAME Filed A112. 29. 1925Patented Aug. 16, 1927. w I V pairs srarss PATEN-fi orrics.

GUNNAR CHRISTIAN EKSTRiil-VI, OF STOCKHOLM, AND BROR ANDERS EMILJOHNSON,

OF APPELVIKEII, SWEDEII, ASSIGNORS TO AKTIEBOLAGET GERH. AREHNS ME-KANISKA VERKSTAD, OF STGCI IHGLM, S'WEDEN, A GORPGBATION OF SWEDEN.

MEANS FOR PORTIONING CIGABETTES OR OTHER STAFF-SHAPED ARTICLES FOR THEPACKING OF THE SAME.

Application filed August 29, 1925, Serial No. 53,420, and 'in SwedenJune 9, 1923.

This invention relates to a device for 9, adapted to enter therespective guide-ways. portioning cigarettes or other stafishaped ar- 7Piston 8 is movable in guides and is pushed ticles for the packing ofthe same in boxes into the guide-ways by aspi-ing 10 and reor the like.According to the invention the moved from the same by a cam-disc12,.pro-

cigarettes are fed from one or more magavided on a rotating shaft 11,and a motion zines through two or more channels or guidetranemittingdevice 13, 14. 7 ways to an assembling place, which is com- 'In order toprevent the cigarettes from 60 inon to the said guide-ways and at whichthe sliding downwards in the guide ways 2, 3 guide-ways aresubstantially horizontal and and 4 and occupying an oblique position,

located above each other, so that the cigawhile the piston 8, after ithas removed the rettes are arranged into two or more parallel cigarettesfrom the horizontal parts of the rows, located above each other. Asuitable guide-ways, is returned, three bars 15, 16 65 number ofcigarettes in each row, which and 17 are provided, Fig. 3, which duringcigarettes together constitute a set of cigathe return stroke of thepiston are forced rettes to be packed in a box. is then pushed againstthat cigarette of each row, which is from the said guide-ways by apiston and located nearest to those cigarettes which are preferably intoa chamber, in which the said puslied trom the guide-ways, and thus lockset is compressed to a compact bundle bethe said cigarette and allsubsequent cigafore the set is introduced into the boX. l/Vith iettcs inthe guide-ways. The said bars are the portioning device means may be comcarried by pivotally mounted bell-crank bined for supplying one or morecoupons, levers 18, 19 and 20 respectively. Lever 18 photos or the liketo each set of ci arettes in is acted n 3011 b a s rin 18 and a cam75 1. 1 L v I b oraer to be incorporated wit the same. d sc 21 by meansor an arm 22. Motion is Fig. 1 in the accompanying drawing showstransmitted from the lever 18 to the lever in a side view a aortionindevice arran ed 19 by a link 23 and the bell-crank lever 20 0 n o I I aO 7 in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is swung by the lever 19by means of toothed shows in a sideview a piston for pushing thesegments 24 and 25. As} the set of cigarettes set of cigarettes out fromthe guide-ways. is pushed from the guide-ways bythe piston Fig. 3 showsin a side view means for lock-, 8, the cigarettes may enter 1 a chamber,iii

ing the superposed cigarettes in each guide which the said set isjc-ompressedinto a comway, while the set of cigarettes is pushed pactbundle n order to be then introduced from the assembling place. Fig. 1-shows in into the box or the like. As the compression a side view meansfor feeding coupons or chamber, which may be of any suitable or the1ikeinto th sets f cigarettes. known construction, is not comprisedbythis In the. portioning device shown in the invention, itis not shownin the drawing. drawing three channels or guide-ways 2, 8 Owingto the.fact that the cigarettes are and i extend downwards from a magazine 1ought together "ito a set from two or containing cigarettes, into whichguide-ways more guide-ways simultaneously the gatherthe cigarettes arefed in the known manner mg oi the sets, each composed by a plurality 49by rotating drums 5, 6 and 7 respectively of rows, is effected veryrapidly, which conprovided in their eripheral surfaces with sl'derablyincreases the output of the pack grooves. The said guide-ways 2, 3 andimeet ing machine. I at their lower ends in such manner, that their Forsupplying each set of cigarettes with lower parts, which aresubstantially horioneor more coupons or the like a slot 26,

zontal, are located above each other and the ig. 1, is provided in oneof the walls of the cigarettes descending through the guideguide-ways,into which the coupon is pushed 7 ways constitute in the said horizontalparts and thus, in the present case, will be located of the guide-waysthree rows of cigarettes between two rows of cigarettes. The saidlocated above each other as shown in Figs, 1 coupon is pushed from thesaid slot simul- 50 and 8. A suitable number of cigarettes in taneouslywith the set 01" cigarettes by a each row is then pushed longitudinallyof the tongue 9 )rovided on the piston 8. Coupons igar ttes out from thguide-way b a pisare provided in a magazine 27 and are fed ton 8, Fig.2, which is provided with tongues from the same by a catcher 28,pivotaliy mounted on a slide 30 which is reciprocated in a guide 29. Thesaid catcher 28 is "held by a spring 31 in an adjusted position,determined by screw 32, and so adapted that the catcher during thereciprocation, of the slide 30, will engage the lowermost coupon (or itmay be two or more coupons) in the magazine 27. While the slide-is movedtoward the right the caught coupon slides on the top side of the guideof the slide 30. As the slide 30 has been moved through a distancesubstantially equal to the length of a coupon, it is returned, thecoupon being engaged and held in its position by a pawl, fixed ontheguide of the slide and consisting of a plate-spring 33 having a knee.The other end of the saidspring 33 is adapted toforce-the coupon againstits guide. As the-slide 30is again moved toward the right a secondcatcher, 3'1 provided on the slide engages the coupon held by the pawl33 and moves the same a further step toward the right, until'it isengaged by a second pawl 35. By meansof some additional catchers and.corresponding pawls coupon after coupon is inthe described manner fedinto the slot 26 and associated with the respective sets of cigarettes.The slide 30 may be reciprocatedjin any suitable manner for in stancebymeans of a cam or groove-disc and a motion transmitting device (notshown).

Among the advantages of the described portioning device, the followingmay be mentioned. In contradistinction to portioning devices of thattype in which the guide-ways also atthe assembling place are verticaland for thatv reason require counter-pistons which are-moved upwards anddownwards andsupportthe, cigarettes While lowered to the assemblingplace, the construction of the present portioning device is more simple,because no such coun-ter-pistons are necessary. For, that reason thepresent portioning device operates in a more reliable manner. Furtheritmay be mentioned, that, while the set of cigarettes is transmitted intothe compression chamber mentioned above, the set of cigarettes can notcollapse. The locking means shown in the drawing for retaining thecigarettesin the guide-ways is very simple and not able to spoil thecigarettes. The assembled set of cigarettes may easily be inspected andthe. supplying of the same with coupons is easilyv effected.

Instead of the drums feeding the cigarettes from the magazine any otherfeed device,

evidently, may be used, for instance endless belts or the like providedwith pockets. The coupons etc. may be cut from a strip. The part of thestrip constituting the coupon etc. may be cut from the strip eitherbefore the strip, fed forward in any suitable manner, arrives to the setof cigarettes, the part cut from the strip being then introduced intothe slot 26, or after the end of the strip has been introduced into thesaid slot. The coupon etc. may be placed above or under the set ofcigarettes or at one of its, sides instead of inside the set as shown.The invention may evidently be modified in many other ways withoutexceeding the limits of the same.

We claim:

1. In a device for portioning staff-shaped articles for the packing ofsame the combination of guide-ways tor the said articles which at anassembling place extend in a substantially horizontal direction and arelo-' cated above each other, so that the articles aregatheredin'parallel superposed rows, a piston for pushing a set ofarticles out from the said assembling place, members provided at theassembling place and means for forcing the saidmembers against thosearticles, which are located nearest-to the set of articles in eachguide-way in order-to retain the articles in the guide-ways duringthereturn stroke of the piston.

2. In a device for portioning staff-shaped articles for the packing ofsame and for incorporating a coupon, photo or the like to each set ofarticles the combination of guideways for the said articles which at anassembling place extend in a substantially horizontal direction and arelocated above each other, sothat the articles are gathered in parallelsuperposed rows, a slide reciprocated at a magazine containing thecoupons and provided with yielding members located behind each other andadapted to catch a coupon in the magazine and to transport the same ontothe gathered set of articles, stationary members adapted to engage thecoupon and hold the same in its new position, while the slide returns,and a piston for pushing a set of articles together with the coupon outfrom the said assembling place.

In testimony whereof we have ailixed our signatures.

GUNNAR CHRISTIAN EKsTRoM. neon ANDERS EMIL JOHNSON.

